Note 410 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
Warrant Books, vol. lvii. Jan.-April 1743. This system of local effort has a certain interest for the present, since Newcastle was one of the ports that applied for guns. Ibid. vol. lviii. p. 66. In the island of Jersey there were "parish-guns" kept in the parish churches, twenty-two of them in all, field-pieces. Ibid. vol. lxiii. p. 91. For the fortification of the dockyards, see Warrant Books, 12th April 1756.